vocation vs job

job vs vocation

vocation and job both are nouns.

vocation is not a verb while job is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vocation	Yes	No	No	No
job	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, job is a hypernym of vocation; that is, job is a word with a broader meaning than vocation:

vocation: the particular occupation for which you are trained
job: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

Other hypernyms of vocation include business, line, line of work, occupation.

vocation (noun)	job (noun)
the particular occupation for which you are trained	the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
a body of people doing the same kind of work	a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
	a crime (especially a robbery)
	a damaging piece of work
	the responsibility to do something
	the performance of a piece of work
	a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'
	an object worked on; a result produced by working
	(computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
	a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

vocation (verb)	job (verb)
	invest at a risk
	work occasionally
	profit privately from public office and official business
	arranged for contracted work to be done by others

Difference between vocation and job

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